Hitchens on Zimbabwe

"The situation in Zimbabwe has now reached the point where the international community would be entirely justified in using force to put Robert Mugabe under arrest and place him on trial."

Hitchens' treatment of the threshold conditions for interventions is too simplisitic, but he introduces a useful 'germ warfare' justification and there is an interesting discussion of the relationship between failed and rogue states. I like his assertion that "human rights and epidemiology may be natural partners"; one to reflect on...